derf82
@derf82@lemmy.world
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
He was a German scientist in Poland, actually.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
It isn’t about being “scared” of them, it is about them being used.
And we don’t just make forecasts, we report actual temperatures.
But whatever, you just want an air of superiority.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
You go if you want to be precise as Fahrenheit is without decimals.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Yet weather reports rarely include them.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Fahrenheit was literally devised by a physicist, Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, a European, mind you.
It was based on physical properties, too. Originally 0 was the freezing point of a replicable water solution, and 96 was set at human body temperature (96 used as it made dividing a thermometer easier). It was later recalibrated to put boiling at 212, 180 degrees from freezing, but that’s the original basis.
There is no god-ordained rule that states that 0 has to be the freezing point of water, nor 100 the boiling point.
Fahrenheit also has an inherent advantage to Celsius in that for every 5 degrees C there are 9 degrees F. There is more inherent precision.
- Comment on Why BlueSky Isn’t the Alternative to X (Formerly Twitter) You’re Looking For — and Why Mastodon Is the Better Choice Over X, Threads, and BlueSky 1 year ago:
I have yet to see any marketing for Bluesky. The fediverse still takes effort, even if it isn’t necessarily complicated.
- Comment on Why BlueSky Isn’t the Alternative to X (Formerly Twitter) You’re Looking For — and Why Mastodon Is the Better Choice Over X, Threads, and BlueSky 1 year ago:
Bluesky is far more user friendly and that’s why the people are going there. I get it, y’all love federation and ActivityPub, but no one wants to pick an instance, much less read a manifesto on decentralized social media. (Frankly, Lemmy has much of the same issues.)
I have had a Mastodon account since Elmo Muskrat bought Twitter, but it’s practically useless as few outside some specific IT-oriented users are on it. I got Bluesky, and it’s been way better as it attracts a larger variety of people.